PRESS KIT
AWARDS

 
GRAMMY Winner   Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
(Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Reese Wynans)
Genre   Blues
GRAMMY Category   Best Contemporary Blues Album - or Contemporary Blues Recording
Year   1992 - 35th Annual GRAMMY Awards
Title of the Work   The Sky Is Crying (Album)
Artist Performing Work   Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
   
GRAMMY Winner   Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
(Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Reese Wynans)
Genre   Rock
GRAMMY Category   Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Year   1992 - 35th Annual GRAMMY Awards
Title of the Work   Little Wing (Track)
Artist Performing Work   Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
   
GRAMMY Winner   Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
(Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Reese Wynans)
Genre   Blues
GRAMMY Category   Best Contemporary Blues Album - or Contemporary Blues Recording
Year   1989 - 32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards
Title of the Work   In Step (Album)
Artist Performing Work   Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble
   
GRAMMY Winner   J.B. Hutto And The New Hawks (Brian Bisesi), John Hammond, Koko Taylor And The Blues Machine (Steve Freund, Willie Hays, Emmet Maestro Sanders, Koko Taylor, Bay Williams), Luther Guitar Junior Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Reese Wynans)
Genre   Blues
GRAMMY Category   Best Traditional Blues Album - or - Best Traditional Blues Recording
Year   1984 - 27th Annual GRAMMY Awards
Title of the Work   Blues Explosion
Artist Performing Work   John Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor And The Blues Machine, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, J.B. Hutto And The New Hawks

 

Grammy Nominations
 
Year Award
   
1983

Best Traditional Blues Recording
Texas Flood (track)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

   
1983

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Rude Mood (track)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

   
1984

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Voodoo Child – Slight Return (track)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

   
1984

Best Traditional Blues Recording
Blues Explosion (album)

Presented to John Hammond, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Sugar Blue, Koko Taylor, Luther Johnson (aka Guitar Junior) JB Hutto and the New Hawks

   
1985

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Say What (track)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

   
1987 Best Rock Instrumental Performance (orchestra group or soloist)
Say What (track) from Live Alive
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
   
1989

Best Contemporary Blues Recording
In Step (album)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

   
1989

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Travis Walk (track from In Step)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

   
1992

Best Contemporary Blues Album
The Sky Is Crying
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

   
1992

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Little Wing (track from The Sky is Crying)
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

 

Austin Chronicle/Austin Music Awards
 
Year Award
   
1989 - 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Song of the Year - Crossfire
1989 - 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Best Single - Crossfire
1989 - 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Album of the Decade - Texas Flood
1989 - 1990

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Best LP, In Step

1991 - 1992 Arc Angels, Best Rock Band
1991 - 1992 Arc Angels, Band of the Year
1992 - 1993? Best Bass Player
1992 - 1993 Arc Angels, Band of the Year
1992 - 1993 Arc Angels, Best Rock Band
1992 - 1993 Arc Angels, Best Texas Video - Living in a Dream
1994 – 1995 Best Bass Player
1995 - 1996 Hall of Fame
1996 - 1997 StoryvilleBest Rock Band
1996 - 1997 Best Bassist
1997 - 1998 Best Bassist
1998 – 1999 Storyville, Best Rock Band
1999 – 2000 Storyville, Band of the Decade
1999 – 2000 Bassist of the Decade
1999 - 2000 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Album of the Decade - The Sky is Crying
1999 – 2000 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Single of the Decade - Crossfire



 

Radio/Print
 
Year Award
   
July 28, 1989 FMOB Album Report Hot Tracks 100
#1 Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Crossfire
   
Aug. 4, 1989 AOR Tracks
#1  Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Crossfire
   

July 28, 1990

 

Hard Report
Top 100
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Crossfire
   
July 21, 1990 Hard Report
Top 100
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Crossfire
   
1989 Performance (The International Talent Weekly)
Reader's Poll
Winner - Concert Package of the Year
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Jeff Beck
   
1989 Performance (The International Talent Weekly)
Reader's Poll
Winner - Blues Act of the Year
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
   
1989 Pollstar Concert Industry Award
Most Creative Tour Package
"Voted by your peers in the concert industry"
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Jeff Beck
   
Week ending Aug. 5, 1989

Billboard
Album Rock Tracks
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Crossfire

   
Week ending July 29, 1989 Billboard
Album Rock Tracks
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Crossfire
   
July 25, 1989

Album Network’s Power Cuts Concensus
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, Crossfire



 

Misc.
 
Year Award
   
1981

Buddy Holly Award
Double Trouble
Critic’s Choice – Best Blues

   
1988 Robert Plant's Non Stop Tour
May 5th - May 26, 1988
155,000 fans
"Love and Thanks - Robert"
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Troubl
e
   
1995

Commission
Honorary Order of
Kentucky Colonels
Colonel Thomas Shannon

 

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